Saint-Cléophas

Saint-Cléophas is a parish in the regional Municipalité of county of Matapédia with the Quebec (Canada), located in the administrative area of the Low-Saint-Laurent.

Since 1908, a group of colonists living the territory of what today is Saint-Cléophas, approaches steps the bishop of Rimouski, monseigneur Andre-Albert Blais, to found a parish which one wanted to call Our-Lady-of-Meadows. The prelate had then estimated that it was about a premature gesture. Finally opened at the any end of the First World War, the mission of Saint-Cléophas, reaches the statute of parish in 1921. The name retained for the parish, taken again during municipal erection in 1921, underlines the work of the abbot Joseph-Cléophas Saindon (1866-1941), first priest of the parish close to Holy-Marie-to Sayabec (1896-1941), serving parish as from 1918.

The fame of this modest municipality is ensured by the Center Naturanimo, zoo largely attended by people of the valley of Matapédia. The local economy rests especially on the forestry development and agriculture. Many érablières there are also found.

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Sources

Repertory of the municipalities of Quebec
Commission of toponymy of Quebec
municipal Businesses and areas - regional charts

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